Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy

DISCUSSIONS ON THE ETERNITY OF THE WORLD IN ANTIQUITY AND IN CONTEMPORARY COSMOLOGY PART II, FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS TO ISLAM

by Michael Chase

Talk given at the annual Tekhne workshop in Berdsk, Novosibirsk, Russia, May 2012

Struttura e significato del silenzio nel rituale d’iniziazione pitagorico: il silenzio come morte rituale in Studia Patavina: Rivista di Scienze Religiose, Vol 52, N°1

by Pietro Piro

Publisced in Studia Patavina: Rivista di Scienze Religiose, Vol 52, N°1, Padova 2005, pp. 127-148, ISSN 0039-3304, ora in Le prime luci dell'alba. Materiali di storia delle religioni, Navarra Editore, Palermo 2009, pp. 94-122.

Starting from an analysis of Greek society, wholly orientated, in political terms, towards creating an essentially... more Starting from an analysis of Greek society, wholly orientated, in political terms, towards creating an essentially structural paideia, the author aims to illustrate how the mystical alternatives represented an attempt to accede to an alternative way of salvation to that offered by the political religion. The Pythagorean sect represented such an alternative and precisely because of its characteristics as a communitas, was exposed to the typical tensions of the structure/anti-structure dialectic which pervaded the society. In this light the events which culminated in the anti-Pythagorean revolt are examined and interpreted. Having considered the general political context, the role of silence within the initiation ritual of the sect is analysed, firstly by considering some interpretations which concentrate more on the doctrinal contents to leave unsaid rather than on the actual use of silence as a structural moment of the initiation ritual. The role of silence as part of the ritual practice is then analysed, identifying four fundamental phases: an initial physiognomic and anamnestic exam; a preliminary three-year period; a further intermediate period of five years; and a final phase of either aggregation to the communitas or violent expulsion. In this perspective silence was interpreted as a period of ritual death and rebirth, inserted within a specific initiation context.

Filosofia Tardoantica - Osservazioni preliminari in R. Chiaradonna (ed.), Filosofia tardoantica. Storia e problemi, Carocci, Roma 2012

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

Discussions on the Eternity of the World in Late Antquity

by Michael Chase

ΣΧΟΛΗ, Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 5.2 (2011), 111-173

Review of S.Ahbel-Rappe, Damascius, problems & solutions concerning first principles

by Michael Chase

Internal Journal of the Platonic Tradition 6 (2010), 139-145

R. Chiaradonna, "Energeia et kinêsis chez Plotin et Aristote (Enn. VI, 1, [42], 16. 4-19) ", In Dunamis : autour de la puissance chez Aristote, éd. M. Crubellier, Annick Jaulin et alii, Louvain-La-Neuve, Peeters, 2008, p. 471-491

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

Performing an academic talk. Proclus on Hesiod’s Works and Days

by Patrizia Marzillo

published in: Elizabeth Minchin (ed.), Orality and Literacy in the Greco-Roman World: Composition and Performance, Leiden: Brill, 183-200.

Clement of Alexandria

by Catherine Rowett

in The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity ed. Lloyd Gerson

R. Chiaradonna, "Connaissance des intelligibles et degrés de la substance: Plotin et Aristote", Études Platoniciennes, 3 (2006), pp. 57-85

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

“La figura e il pensiero di Proclo in Bertoldo di Moosburg”, ARKETE. Rivista di studi filosofici 1 (2005), pp. 51-67

by Irene Zavattero

45. Review of Michael Frede, A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought, Berkeley 2011

by Susanne Bobzien

Forthcoming in Journal of the History of Philosophy 50.2, 2012.
Please quote from published version only.

‘triseudemon maximus noster sophista’. The evidence of one Syriac text for identification of a source used in John of Alexandria’s 'In Epid. VI'

by Grigory Kessel

R. Chiaradonna, "Platonismo e teoria della conoscenza stoica tra II e III secolo d. C.", in M. Bonazzi-Ch. Helmig (eds.), Platonic Stoicism-Stoic Platonism: The Dialogue Between Platonism and Stoicism in Antiquity, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2007, pp. 209-242

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

R. Chiaradonna, Voce "Plotino" in Giordano Bruno, Bruniana e Campanelliana, 17 (2011), pp. 223-232

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

R. Chiaradonna, Voce "Plotino" in Tommaso Campanella, Bruniana e Campanelliana, 14 (2008), pp. 521-528 (ristampa con lievi modifiche: in E. Canone, G. Ernst, a cura di, Enciclopedia bruniana e campanelliana, vol. II, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma 2010)

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

R. Chiaradonna, "Plotin, la mémoire et la connaissance des intelligibles", Philosophie antique, 9 (2009), pp. 5-33

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

R. Chiaradonna, Review of P. Remes, Plotinus on Self. The Philosophy of the ‘We’, Cambridge 2007, The Classical Review, 59/2 (2009), pp. 433-434

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

R. Chiaradonna, "Porphyry and Iamblichus on Universals and Synonymous Predication", Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 18, 2007, pp. 123-140

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

R. Chiaradonna, "Esegesi e sistema in Plotino", in A. Neschke-Hentschke (Hrsg.), Argumenta in dialogos Platonis, I, Beiträge Zur Geschichte der Interpretation Platons und ihrer Hermeneutik von der Antike bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts, Schwabe, Basel 2010 , pp. 101-117

by Riccardo Chiaradonna

R. Chiaradonna, ’Movimento dell’intelletto e movimento dell’anima in Plotino (Enn. VI 2 [43], 8.10)’, in F. Alesse, F. Aronadio, C. Dalfino, L. Simeoni, E. Spinelli (eds), Anthrôpinê sophia. Studi di filologia e storiografia filosofica in memoria di Gabriele Giannantoni, Bibliopolis, Naples 2008, pp. 497-450, ISBN ISBN 978-88-7088-563-7

by Riccardo Chiaradonna